All About Your Child

During Christmas Day, we often see people wearing christmas hats and illumine sticks, which are then bent to form bracelets. My kids are always crazy over these. I hardly buy for them except for party-time.

It was their lucky day today when Allan’s friend gave a tube of 50 sticks to them. They were so ‘high’, they bent ALL THE 50 STICKS to ‘activate’ the lights.

Usually they would just bend 1 stick to form a bracelet or at most, join 3 or 4 of the sticks together to form a necklace.

But not for tonight, Keatkeat’s creativity cells were at work. He made this for me! NO ONE taught him how to do it, NO instructions or whatsoever to show him how to do it. He just did it out of his own creativity! I was amazed and very touched! *sigh* you know, mommies are like that all the time…..*wink*

and he decorated the cabinets….this is how it looks like with camera flash….

and this without the flash! Isn’t it pretty…?

they are not in the picture, ‘cos they were busy at work with the rest of the sticks.

When kids are having fun, its the time when kids’ creative mind is at work. Have your child ever made something for you out of his or her own imagination?

Finally, its not raining! Just want to get out of the house to get some fresh air after 4 days of cold and rainy weather. Got the kids to bathe, get dress….when kids know that they are going shopping, they just become sooooo obedient and do exactly what you say in fast speed….*wink*

So in less than an hour, we got out of the house. Yeah! Waited for about half an hour for the free shuttle service to IMM from the bus interchange and in less than 10mins, we are there.

IMM was so full of Christmas decorations. So we took the chance and take photos…

Didn’t look too excited. So I gave each of them a Santa Hat to get them in higher spirit.

That’s Better!

Then we shop….

then they saw the kiddy ride…$2 for 10mins…because they were younger than 7 years old. The assistant said I had to be on it too, so what a bargain! All 3 of us in the kiddy ride together for $2! So 3 of us drove around the 100+sq foot of empty space on the furry elephant.

and we played and played….

and they spotted the water playground!

Sorry boys…not today…

dark clouds start covering the sky again…have a drink before we go…

on the way home, Keatkeat spotted these on the floor….

the kids only managed to observe for a few seconds and the rain started…what a waste!

Its great fun to shop with the kids when you know how to handle them. Children normally become extra active when they are outdoors, parents must understand that its the way children express their excitement.

Its so often that you hear parents shouting, “stay still”, “don’t run”, “keep quiet” when they are shopping with their kids. Kids are not robots, they have feelings, let them have the freedom to express it.

Do you enjoy shopping with your kids?